background?
A. I have a degree in journalism from George Washington University and I've spent most of my working adult life as a journalist, much of it as an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that I worked as an investigative reporter at Roll Call Newspaper writing about political corruption, financial crime, terrorism, tax evasion, stock fraud, financial scandals, congressional investigations, government prosecutions, money laundering, organized crime.
Q. And when did you leave the Wall Street Journal?
A. In 2009.
Q. And did you found SNS Global after leaving the Wall Street Journal?
A. That's right.
Q. And how many employees and associates did SNS Global have?
A. There were two partners and in the first part of the time I think we had one employee. No, I'm sorry. We had two employees.
Q. And who were they?
A. We had a research assistant named Margot
